Improvement in hand-cultivators



I. S. LUCAS.

HAND-GULTIVATOR. No.182,374. Patented Sept. 19, 1876.

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ATTORNEYS.

".FETERS, FHOTO-LIYHOGRAFHER, WASHINGYON D C UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

JAMES S. LUCAS, OF BOWLING. GREEN, KENTUCKY,

IMPROVEMENT IN HAND-CULTIVATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,374, dated September 19, 1876; application filed July 11, 1876.

To all whom it may concern;-

Be it known that I, JAMES S. LUCAS, of Bowling Green, in the county of Warren and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and Improved Hand-Cultivator, of which the following is a specification i In the, accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a top view, and Fig. 2 a side view, of my improved hand-cultivator.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invent-ion relates to an improved handcultivator for field and garden use, that may be Worked with advantage for nearly all kinds of vegetables, by pulling astride the row, and also for pruning strawberry and other vines.

The invention consists of a hand-cultivator with V-shaped arms or wings, having a suitable number of teeth and curved cutting-knives at the front part.

In the drawing, A represents the wings or arms of my improved cultivator, which are arranged in V shape, spreading at a suitable angle, and attached'to an inclined handle, B. The wings A are provided with cultivatorv teeth 0, which are either made in one piece with the wings, or riveted or screwed thereto.

. The teeth may be .made round, square, or triangular, straight or curved, and of suitable length.

' At the front part of the wings A, near the apex or meeting-point of the same, are placed curved knives D, having the edge on the convex side, that serve for the purposes of formi as new and desire to secure by Letters Pat-' ent- The combination of the spreading wings A, cultivator-teeth (J, cutting or pruning knives D, and handle B, all constructed and. relatively arranged as herein shown, for the purpose set forth.

JAS. s. 'LUOAS.

Witnesses:

ETHEL WILLIAMS, W. H. 'ROGHESTER. 

